Adjectives modify or affect the meaning of nouns and pronouns, and
tell us which, whose, what kind, and how many about the nouns or
pronouns they modify. They come before the noun or pronoun they
modify except for the predicate adjective, which comes after a
linking verb and modifies the subject.
There are seven words in the English language that are always
adjectives. They are the articles a, an, and the, and the possessives
my, our, your, and their. One should memorize these words so they
are immediately recognized as adjectives.
Example of adjectives: The big brown bear grabbed the scared
small man. The, big and brown modify the subject bear and the,
scared and small modify the direct object man. Examples of a
predicate adjective: The big bear is brown. The brown bear was big.
Brown and big come after the linking verbs is and was and modify
the subject bear.
Adjectives that point out which include that, this, those, these, and
the articles a, an, and the.
Instructions: Find the adjectives that tell which in these sentences
and tell what they modify.
1. These first apples have been stepped on.
2. This money had been lost at the races.
3. That cat had those kittens.
4. A mouse can scare an elephant.
5. An answer will be found in the dictionary or a thesaurus.